[ExI] Social organization (was leftist, etc)

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Wed May 28 05:50:30 UTC 2014


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
> More recently I have been particularly impressed by the work of
> Gregory Clark.  His book _Farewell to Alms_ is excellent.  If you want
> to read the Cliff notes version, try here:
> http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Capitalism%20Genes.pdf
>
> Genetically Capitalist? The Malthusian Era, Institutions and the
> Formation of Modern Preferences.
>

### "The Son Also Rises" is pretty cool, too.

So, anybody else finished reading "A Troublesome Inheritance"? I liked it,
even if none of the material was really new to me. Not surprisingly, it got
the author fired and Watsoned. At least that's all they do to blasphemers
nowadays, no more auto-da-fe. I guess it's progress.

Rafal
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